Masonic Didactics;

"WHETHER IN POLITICS OR MORALS . Iniqua nunquam regna perpetua manetit . —SENECA . THE converse of the proposition advanced in the Thesis would be a denial of the existence of a superintending Providence , who decrees and overrules the destiny of nations as well as men . The Jewish history exemplifies the truth , both of the proposition and its consequence , in

the judgment that befell the sin of Jeroboam , who made the nation of Israel to sin : the Roman history , in the downfall and annihilation of the family of Tarquin Superbus , who obtained his sovereignty by iniquity , and maintained it on the same principle : in English history , by the records of the reign of Richard the First , who acquired his usurped authority by the most atrocious measures , and ended his days , as they began , in violence and bloodshed , —the very tomb in which his remains were deposited becoming a horse-trough at a road-side inn . These are only isolated examples , abstracted from a multitude of the same forcible character .

A government under any system , unless it be directed by integrity and justice—equal laws and equal rights—becomes a burthen to the people ; and , notwithstanding every effort may be made by the " powers that be" to prop the tottering fabric by patch-work legislation and acts of time-serving expediency , its own venal weight and short-sighted provisions must ultimately prove the cause of its overthrow and ruin . Overwhelmed by the groans of the oppressedthe complaints of the poor

, labourer who lifts his clasped hands to Heaven in agony , supplicating for bread to feed his starving offspring , the murmurs of the turbulent , the discontented , and the disaffected , a weak , tyrannical , unjust , or party-spirited government must eventually sink , paralysed by the accumulation of such menacing circumstances . It is not possible that any thing which offends , from its iniquitous nature , a just and righteous Being , and , upon similar grounds , excites the detestation of all good and

honest men , should be permitted to annoy our vision longer than the period required to fill up the cup of its own wrathful retribution . It is this sentiment alone that saves many a faithful servant of the Most Hi gh from seeking refuge from the cruel machinations of the " workers of iniquity , " in melancholy suicide . God is just , and the avenger of his people ' s wrongs , who cry day and night to him for safety from the hands and snares of the oppressor . It would be as unreasonable as irreligious to suppose that any body of men invested with legislative functions , whether monarchical , aristocratic , or democratical , have any just right , derivable from scripture or reason , to tyrannise over another body ,.

Masonic Didactics;

"WHETHER IN POLITICS OR MORALS . Iniqua nunquam regna perpetua manetit . —SENECA . THE converse of the proposition advanced in the Thesis would be a denial of the existence of a superintending Providence , who decrees and overrules the destiny of nations as well as men . The Jewish history exemplifies the truth , both of the proposition and its consequence , in

the judgment that befell the sin of Jeroboam , who made the nation of Israel to sin : the Roman history , in the downfall and annihilation of the family of Tarquin Superbus , who obtained his sovereignty by iniquity , and maintained it on the same principle : in English history , by the records of the reign of Richard the First , who acquired his usurped authority by the most atrocious measures , and ended his days , as they began , in violence and bloodshed , —the very tomb in which his remains were deposited becoming a horse-trough at a road-side inn . These are only isolated examples , abstracted from a multitude of the same forcible character .

A government under any system , unless it be directed by integrity and justice—equal laws and equal rights—becomes a burthen to the people ; and , notwithstanding every effort may be made by the " powers that be" to prop the tottering fabric by patch-work legislation and acts of time-serving expediency , its own venal weight and short-sighted provisions must ultimately prove the cause of its overthrow and ruin . Overwhelmed by the groans of the oppressedthe complaints of the poor

, labourer who lifts his clasped hands to Heaven in agony , supplicating for bread to feed his starving offspring , the murmurs of the turbulent , the discontented , and the disaffected , a weak , tyrannical , unjust , or party-spirited government must eventually sink , paralysed by the accumulation of such menacing circumstances . It is not possible that any thing which offends , from its iniquitous nature , a just and righteous Being , and , upon similar grounds , excites the detestation of all good and

honest men , should be permitted to annoy our vision longer than the period required to fill up the cup of its own wrathful retribution . It is this sentiment alone that saves many a faithful servant of the Most Hi gh from seeking refuge from the cruel machinations of the " workers of iniquity , " in melancholy suicide . God is just , and the avenger of his people ' s wrongs , who cry day and night to him for safety from the hands and snares of the oppressor . It would be as unreasonable as irreligious to suppose that any body of men invested with legislative functions , whether monarchical , aristocratic , or democratical , have any just right , derivable from scripture or reason , to tyrannise over another body ,.